GOOD TEMPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good temper mean? 

• GOOD TEMPER (noun)
  The noun GOOD TEMPER has 1 sense:

1. a cheerful and agreeable mood

  Familiarity information: GOOD TEMPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD TEMPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cheerful and agreeable mood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

amiability; good humor; good humour; good temper

Hypernyms ("good temper" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; mood; temper (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good temper"):

jolliness; jollity; joviality (feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor)

 Context examples 

There are on both sides good principles and good temper.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

His old simple character and good temper, and something of his old unlucky fortune also, I thought, smiled at me in the smile with which he made this explanation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Grant had chosen, he would have taken a—not a good temper into it; and as he must, either in the navy or army, have had a great many more people under his command than he has now, I think more would have been made unhappy by him as a sailor or soldier than as a clergyman.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like Mr. Allen.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)